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Brandon Sanderson / Re: ***SPOLIERS Official Hero of Ages Spoilers Thread. Includes Q&A w/Brandon*
« on: October 23, 2008, 03:34:17 AM »Right but afterward she didn't have anything to keep her drawing on the power because Marsh was gone. You got to realize that she didn't know exactly what she was doing, and I think she only got to the power because she was desperate.
I think that I found something that might shed some light on the issue. The the pre-chapter 79 little blurb page 524:
"I believe the mists were searching for someone to become a new host for them. The power needed a consciousness to direct them.
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Marsh ripped it out, freeing her and allowing the mists---which were now desperate for a host, since Preservation's last wisp was gone--- to finally pour themselves into her."
The Key phrase there is "allowing the mists.......to finally pour themselves into her". So at Fardex City when she fought the Koloss these same conditions existed. It was not contingent on Vin drawing the mists in (which she did to fight Marsh) but them - the mists - that poured themselves into her as soon as they were free to do so.
Another question.
The vials that Vin stole from Marsh contained Duralumin? How/why would that be? I know that Ruin would have learned of it from TenSoon/Zane but he would have to get a spike from an Duralumin Misting or a Mistborn. A Misting would be impossible to find wouldn't it? Did Ruin waste a Mistborn on Marsh to give him this ability? It does not make sense to me that Ruin would do that. Much more value to make another Inquisitor from the Mistborn and have him able to burn Duralumin. After all Marsh already had so much extra Feruchemist spikes that the Duralumin would only be a tiny benefit.